Percussion Instruments Quotes

I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

For me, it's always easier playing with a drummer.

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

The first album I ever bought was Santana's 'Abraxas.' Obviously, I was a huge fan of Carlos because he had the unique guitar sound, and he had incorporated a lot of the percussion and really, really fun rhythmic bass lines in there, too.

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

When I was nine, I was passing by a drum class and saw them playing and I was moved. That's why I started making music.

I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

I had some proper training, but that was only on snare drum. Learning all the techniques in marching bands and realizing how important it is to play tight set a standard for me for when I did get into a band.

I look up to a lot of old school drummers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

My first memory of playing music was when I was 3 years old in Puerto Rico. I played percussion on a tin can behind my uncle, who played the cuatro.

I have been drumming my whole life.

What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.

I started playing the drums at five years old and used to listen to a lot of screamo bands like Asking Alexandria, Dream Theater, and Attack Attack!

My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.

I wanted to play the drums, but I had no rhythm.

My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.

There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is.

With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.